John K Stuff: The correct way for animators to hold a chainsaw

Thanks for the tips!

And more surprise eyeball wouldn't be a bad thing!

Belkis Ayon!

Have you ever heard of her?? I hadn't. These cool pictures and a brief story from NPR about her retrospective in Havana, Cuba.

Shorts and tall socks

Thanks to Tom Spurgeon for the costume idea:

Happy Halloween.

Archives from the Tour: "this is important"

from T.V. show Flash Forward: Blue Hand baltimore. Connection? coincidence?

take note

watch out!

Mark Your Calender

Saturday, December 5th 2009
11am-7PM
curated by Desert Island and PictureBox
be there.

I think that's a sign of deep seated emotional problems!

"I don't want spirits in me, I don't want spears in me, I don't want anything in me!"

Hey have you seen this cool anime?

Two cats go on a journey through space in Night on the Galactic Railroad

SEE YOU ON TOUR!!!

OCT. 13.........WORCESTER, MA. DISTANT CASTLE
OCT. 14.........WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VT. MAIN ST. MUSEUM
OCT. 15.........BARD, NY. SMOG
OCT. 16.........PROVIDENCE, RI. MARS GAS CHAMBER
OCT. 17.........BROOKLYN, NY. SILENT BARN
OCT. 19.........BELFAST, ME. ROOTS AND TENDRILS

WE HAVE LOTS OF NICE NEW THINGS TO SELL YOU...

Witch Hat North East Tour 2009

Come get in a bag, come touch my hand, come crawl around
Witch Hat North East Tour 2009
Oct. 13th @ Distant Castle, Worcester Massachusetts
Oct. 14th @ Main Street Museum, White River Junction Vermont w/Weekends and Sam Gaskin
Oct. 15th @ Bard, Annandale on Hudson, NY
Oct. 16th @ Mars Gas Chamber Providence, RI w/ Black Pus, Carlos the living Tsarlag, and White Crime
Oct. 17th @ Silent Barn, Brooklyn NY w/ Popped Blimp and Iyez
Oct. 19th @ TBA Belfast Maine

We've got a lot of stuff in tow. the poster above by bass baby Chris Day


marginal ecstacy



CCC8 with free halloween 2 poster at special tour price


Brand New LLORT2! sample here


E.T. advertisement Catalogue, get em while they last.

and a bunch more: Two brand new fresh fresh Witch Hat tapes, Spirit World tapes, Spirit World comics, CCC7,

Japan is heaven for a cartoonist because you can buy any supplies you want almost anywhere. I LOVE "stationery stores" (bunboguten), especially the small gramma-and-grandpop ones with lots of really old stuff, like ancient protractors and drafting guides and dip pens with years-old price tags. I stop at EVERY bunboguten I see because you never know what you might find. Here are some pics of the stores I frequent.



A small joint near my school in Kobe, where I recently blew 6000 yen on Gocco supplies discounted to 20%! You do the math...



Whole lotta pens



A fancier shop that sells a lot of European brands.



I would have bought this word-balloon template for the novelty if it wasn't so expensive. It's also really small.



I'm always keeping tabs on whether anyone else is buying this stuff. I think nobody does.



You can see a small stand of screentone pages! I love flipping through them. My favorite ones are tacky, over-rendered backgrounds.



Interesting tin pencil sharpeners



Gocco inks



Attention Sam Gaskin, get your white-out of choice here. There's also tons of pen nibs.



A variety of fun stuff.



Trace your lettering in English, Japanese, numerals, wingdings, numerals, italics...



I just love all this stuff!

Witch Hat fall tour 2009

yeah yeah yeah mainstreet museum show!

this is the best venue i have ever played at. this is a museum of oddities in White River Junction Vermont. come to this show if you are in the area, if not for us, come to see Elvis's gallstone.

poster by Chuck McBuck